Flash Player for Mac < 10.3.181.26 Remote Memory Corruption (APSB11-18)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55141

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Synopsis

The remote Mac OS X host has a browser plugin that is affected by a remote memory corruption vulnerability.

Description

According to its version, the instance of Flash Player installed on the remote Mac OS X host is earlier than 10.3.181.26. This version of Flash Player has a critical vulnerability. By tricking a user on the affected system into opening a specially crafted document with Flash content, an attacker could leverage the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code remotely on the system subject to the user's privileges.

This issue is reportedly being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks as of June 2011.

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Flash for Mac version 10.3.181.26 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55141

File Name: macosx_flash_player_10_3_181_26.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Family: MacOS X Local Security Checks

Published: 6/15/2011

Updated: 7/14/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:flash_player

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Flash_Player/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/14/2011

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player AVM Verification Logic Array Indexing Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2110

BID: 48268

Detections

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